Indians make up less than 1% of the Tanzania population and approx population of Indians in Tanzania as of 2023 is 60 thousand. Indian merchant and artisan community settlements in Tanzania go back to the 13th-14th century. For long East African coast has had Indian settlements in Zanzibar, Kilwa, Mombasa, and Mozambique.
Many of them are traders and they control a sizeable portion of the Tanzanian economy. Indians have a long history in Tanzania starting with the arrival of Gujarati traders. They came to gradually control the trade in Zanzibar. There are currently over 50,000 people of Indian origin in Tanzania.